High blood pressure

Causes

Essential high blood pressure: This has no established causes. 

Secondary high blood pressure:There is an underlying cause. There are also examples of secondary high blood pressure:

• Age
  
• Temperature
  
• Obesity or overweight
  
• Physical inactivity
  
• Smoking
  
• Alcohol intake
  
• High salt intake
  
• High fat diet
  
• Mental stress
  
• Diabetes
  
• And others....
  

Symptoms

Most people with high blood pressure will not experience any symptoms. When you will have a hypertensive crisis, symptoms will show, including:

• Headache
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Dizziness
• Blurred or double vision
• Nosebleeds
• Irregular beating of the heart
• Breathlessness

But also, symptoms depend on the age of each person.

Treatment

Treatment for high blood pressure depends on several factors, such its severity, associated risks of developing stroke or cardiovascular, disease, etc.

But for feel better you can:

• Change lifestyle because it can help lower high blood pressure
  
• Do regular exercise
  
• Losing weight
  
• Do relaxation techniques
  
• Sleep more
  

Also you can use medication, but right medication must recommend for you your doctor.

Heart attack

Causes

These factors associated with increased risk of a heart attack:

• Age
  
• Angina
  
• High cholesterol levels
  
• Diabetes
  
• Diet
  
• Genetics
  
• Heart surgery
  
• Hypertension
  
• Obesity
  
• Previous heart attack
  
• Smoking
  
• Work stress
  

Symptoms

A feeling of pressure, tightness, pain, squeezing, or aching in the chest or arms that spreads to the neck, jaw, or back can be a sign that a person is having a heart attack.

Treatment

Sometimes, a person who is having a heart attack will stop breathing. In this case, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, should be started immediately.

Most people will need several kinds of medications or treatments after a heart attack. The aim of these measures is to prevent future heart attacks occurring. 

STROKES

Causes

The different types of stroke have different causes. However, stroke is more likely to affect people if they have the following risk factors:

• Being overweight
• Being aged 55 years or older
• A personal or family history of stroke
• An inactive lifestyle
• A tendency to drink heavily, smoke, or use illicit drugs

Symptoms

If the symptoms have been present during a lot of time, they can affect you with:

• Trouble with speaking and understanding
• Paralysis or numbness of the face, arm or leg
• Trouble with seeing in one or both eyes
• Headache

Treatment

As ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes have different causes, both require different forms of treatment.

It is not only important that the type of stroke is diagnosed quickly to reduce the damage done to the brain, but also because a treatment suitable for one type of stroke may be harmful when treating different type.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)

Causes

Most aortic aneurysms occur in the part of your aorta that's in your abdomen. Although the exact cause of abdominal aortic aneurysms is unknown, a number of factors may play a role, including:

• Tobacco use
• Hardening of the arteries
• High blood pressure
• Blood vessel disease in the aorta
• Infection in the aorta
• Trauma
• Heredity

Symptoms

Most aneurysms have no symptoms unless they rupture. If an AAA does rupture, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:

• Sudden pain in your abdomen or back
• Pain spreading from your abdomen or back to your pelvis, legs, or buttocks
• Clammy or sweaty skin
• Increased heart rate
• Shock or loss of consciousness

Call your doctor immediately if you experience any of these symptoms. A ruptured aneurysm can be life-threatening.

Treatment

The goal of treatment is to prevent your aneurysm from rupturing. Generally, your treatment options are medical monitoring or surgery. Your doctor's decision depends on the size of the aortic aneurysm and how fast it's growing.